Word: wesleyanism
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...Eleven-College Exchange Program, six Eastern men's colleges and five girls' colleges are swapping more than 200 students this year. While 59 girls attend Williams College, 28 Williams men have switched to the girls' schools. Smith has gained 28 men from Amherst, Dartmouth, Trinity, Wesleyan and Williams, but lost 73 of its regular students to men's colleges. A third of the Smithies are bound for Dartmouth, where they are being joined by 15 girls from Mount Holyoke, seven from Wheaton and three from Connecticut College...
...some, the choice of campuses was a question of style. "I didn't really think that I was the Vassar type," says Wesleyan Junior Mark Merlis, an exchange student at Smith. He sees himself as "a male Julie Nixon" and thus feels that he will blend easily into the Smith ambience. For others, the choice reflected parental ambitions. Krisanne Warner, a dean's list student at Bucknell last year, reluctantly applied to Yale because her mother called it "the opportunity of the decade." Krisanne won admission to Yale-succeeding where both her father and brother had failed...
Beneath a green and white candy-striped tent at the north end of the enormous grassy playing field that forms the main quadrangle of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., 18 students and faculty members in flowered sarongs and silken blouses prepared for a Javanese gamelan concert. They tuned and positioned a wondrous, gleaming assemblage of brass gongs, chimes and metallophones with ivory-colored resonators, all mounted on red lacquer and gilt frames with extravagant carvings of dragons and other beasts. Students, some barefoot, bearded and in jeans, crowded around with fascinated families or strolled the vast green...
...defense is anchored by goalie Mike Stanton, a transfer from Wesleyan and captain Bill Evans. Stanton was superb in the late stages of the Princeton game, and held the Tigers to their lowest output all season four goals...
...Crimson defense was particularly effective in the first win of the day, an 18-0 thrashing of Wesleyan. Goalie Peter Kertes turned in the tournament's only shutout with the help of guards Terry Flanagan and Steve Rennard. Dave Powlison was the scoring leader with eight goals...